scom missing performance counters

I recently had to make some changes to my scom test environment server. It’s a single virtual machine with scom, sql, ssrs, the works on it. Despite what one would think, it has performed well with about 30 agents. Recently I added about that many more and it pushed up the ram to the 4gb max that I had given it. When I added more I realized I had used 2008 x32 for the OS (oops) and was not able to see the extra ram. After some research I found that I could do an upgrade from 2008 standard to enterprise, which is what I did. Afterwards, scom wouldn’t run because the SDK service would not start. This is the event log message.

Log Name:      Operations Manager
Source:        OpsMgr SDK Service
Date:          1/7/2011 2:25:48 PM
Event ID:      26380
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:     

Description:
The System Center Operations Manager SDK Service failed due to an unhandled exception. 
The service will attempt to restart.
Exception:

System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess’ threw an exception. —> System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
   at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.Initialize()
   at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.set_RawValue(Int64 value)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounter(String categoryName, String counterName)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounters(PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager..ctor(String instanceName, PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.CreateManager()
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkPerfCounterManager..ctor()
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess..cctor()
   — End of inner exception stack trace —
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess.Initialize()
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Sdk.Service.SdkSubService.AsyncStartCallback(Object notUsed)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="OpsMgr SDK Service" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">26380</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-01-07T19:25:48.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>10025424</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Operations Manager</Channel>
    <Computer>INFMGT52.accessgeneral.com</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess’ threw an exception. —&gt; System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
   at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.Initialize()
   at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.set_RawValue(Int64 value)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounter(String categoryName, String counterName)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager.CreateCounters(PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryManager..ctor(String instanceName, PerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor categoryInfo)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Internal.SingleInstancePerformanceCounterCategoryDescriptor.CreateManager()
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkPerfCounterManager..ctor()
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess..cctor()
   — End of inner exception stack trace —
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.ServiceDataLayer.SdkDataAccess.Initialize()
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Sdk.Service.SdkSubService.AsyncStartCallback(Object notUsed)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallbackInternal(_ThreadPoolWaitCallback tpWaitCallBack)
   at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

After some research I found this article from Microsoft that contains instructions on how to fix this problem.

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Tags: error, scom, system center, upgrade